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PASTELS 1970 - 1999

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RETROSPECTIVE - 2024

 

Beyond Myself, Somewhere, I Wait for My Arrival, The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture, Riverside CA

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

 

A Dream is the Shadow of Something Real, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA 2018

La Vida Sobre Papel, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL 2011

What Dreams May Come, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2010

Judithe Hernández: Works on Paper, Cayman Gallery, New York, NY 1983

A Decade of a Woman's Work, Solart Gallery, San Diego, CA, 1980

Virgen, Madre, Mujer: Imágenes de la Mujer Chicana, Casa de la Raza, Santa Bárbara, CA, 1979

Mi Arte, Mi Raza, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (San Pedro), 1978

 

MUSEUM GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1974 – 2023

 

A Dream is the Shadow of Something Real: Women in Art, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX 2023

Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of la Malinche and the Conquest of Mexico (Catalog)

   Denver Museum of Art, CO  2022

   Albuquerque Museum, NM  2022

   San Antonio Museum of Art, TX  2022 -2023

L.A. Memo: Chicana/o Art from 1972-1989, La Plaza de Cultura  y Arte, Los Angeles CA  2022

Cheech Collects (Inaugural Exhibition), The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture, Riverside Art Museum  2022

War Within, War Without, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2021

Otros Lados, the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL 2020

 Life Model: Charles White and His Students – Los Angeles County Museum of Art 2019

Centennial: 100 Years of Otis College Alumni, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art & Design, 2019

Bridges in Time of Walls: Mexican/Chicano Art from Los Angeles to Mexico, 2019 –2020

   Centro Cultural Clavijero, Morelia, Michoacán,

   Centro de las Artes, Monterrey,

   Museo de Siete Regiones, Acapulco,

   Museo de los Pintores Oaxaqueños, Oaxaca,

   Museo de las Artes de la Universidad de Guadalajara, Jalisco

Bridges in Time of Walls: Mexican/Chicano Art from Los Angeles to Mexico – Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City 2018

SELF HELP GRAPHICS: A Selection of Prints, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland OR 2019

West by Midwest: Geographies of Art and Kinship - Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL 2018

Becoming Los Angeles - Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 2018

OUR AMERICA: The Latino Presence in America:

   Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg in St. Petersburg, Florida, 2017

   Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, Tennessee, 2017

Pacific Standard Time: Latin American and Latino Art in Los Angeles (PST LA/LA), Judithe Hernández & Patssi Valdez:

   ONE PATH Two Journeys, Millard Sheets Art Center 2017 (Catalog)

   Found in Translation: Design in California and Mexico 1915-1985, Los Angeles County Museum of Art 2017 (Catalog)

Miradas: Ancient Roots in Contemporary Mexican Art, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV 2017

OUR AMERICA: The Latino Presence in America:

   Arkansas Art Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, 2016

   Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, Delaware, 2016

   Allentown Art Museum in Allentown, Pennsylvania, 2016

MOLAA at 20: 1996-2016.  The Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA 2016

OUR AMERICA: The Latino Presence in America:

   Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California, 2015

   Utah Museum of Fine Arts in Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015

MIRADAS: Ancient Roots in Modern and Contemporary Mexican Art, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA 2015

La Muerte Niña - Dia de los Muertos, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL 2015

Miradas: Ancient Roots in Contemporary Mexican Art, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ 2014

OUR AMERICA: The Latino Presence in America:   The Smithsonian American Art Museum 2014

The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, 2014

OUR AMERICA: The Latino Presence in America:

Sinful Saints and Saintly Sinners, Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, CA 2014

Miradas: Ancient Roots in Contemporary Mexican Art, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX 2014

OUR AMERICA: The Latino Presence in American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC (Catalog) 2013

Signature Works, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL 2013

Miradas: Ancient Roots in Contemporary Mexican Art, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL 2012

Transforming Public Art: Chicano’s of the 1980’s, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, Los Angeles, CA 2012

Inaugural Exhibition, América Tropical Interpretive Center, Los Angeles, CA 2012

Miradas: Ancient Roots in Mexican Art, CityArtsCenter, Oklahoma, OK 2012

Greetings from L.A.: Artists and Publics, 1950-1980, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA 2011

Round Trip: Eight East Los Angeles Collee Alumni Artists, Vincent Price Art Museum Art, Los Angeles, CA, (Catalog) 2011

Member’s Choice, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX, 2011

Pacific Standard Time: L.A. Art 1945-1980 - Sandra de la Loza: Mural Remix, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2011

Lasting Legacies: A Tribute to the Chicana Art Movement, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, Los Angeles, CA 2011

After the Gold Rush: Reflections & Postscripts on the National Chicano Moratorium, Vincent Price Art Museum, (Catalog) 2011

Pacific Standard Time: L.A. Art 1945-1980 - L.A. XICANO Mapping Another L.A. the Chicano Art Movement, Fowler Museum, (Catalog) 2011

Miradas: Ancient Roots in Mexican Art, Witte Museum, San Antonio, TX, 2011

Miradas: Ancient Roots in Mexican Art, Cummer Museum, Jacksonville, FL 2011

Indigenismo: Ancient Roots in Mexican Art, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, 2010

Siqueiros in Los Angeles: Censorship Defied, the Autry National Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2010

Translating Revolution: U.S. Artists Interpret the Mexican Muralists, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL, 2010

Miradas: Ancient Roots in Mexican Art, MUZEO, Anaheim, CA, 2010

Rastros y Cronicas: Women of Juarez, the National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL, 2009

Feminist Ecology: Women and the Earth, Koehnline Museum, Chicago. IL (Catalog) 2009

Judithe Hernández and Sergio Gomez: Through the Labyrinth, President’s Gallery, Chicago State University, 2009

Miradas - Mexican Art from the Bank of American Collection, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL, 2009

La Vida Sin Fin - Day of the Dead, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL, 2008

Chupacabras! Artists Reinvent the Myth, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL, 2008

Reflections of the Soul - Day of the Dead 2003, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL, 2003

The Mystical in Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, Oxnard, CA, 1994

Les Démon des Anges, Kulturerhuset, Stockholm, Sweden, (Catalog), 1990

Espace Lyonnais d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France, (Catalog), 1989

Centro de Arte Contemporaño Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain (Catalog), 1989

Halle du Centre de Recherche pour le Developpement Culturel, Nantes, France, (Catalog), 1989

The Murals of Aztlan, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 1981

The Aesthetics of Graffiti, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Catalog), 1978

Los Four: Collage & Assemblage, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Shubert Theatre, Century City, Los Angeles, CA 1975

Imagination, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, 1974

In Search of Aztlan, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, 1974

Fantasy, the Dark and Light Side, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1974

In Search of Aztlan, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA (Catalog), 1974

Los Four en Longo, Long Beach Museum of Art (Catalog), 1974

                                               

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

 

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA               

National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL

The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture

La Plaza de Cultura y Artes, Los Angeles, CA         

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Schneider Museum of Art       , Ashland, OR

Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA  

El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX       

Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA          

 

UNIVERSITY MUSEUMS/ & CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

 

AltaMed Foundation, Los Angeles, CA                                                                               

Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin

Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles, CA                   

Bank of America Collection, New York, NY

University of California at Los Angeles

Otis Art Institute Collection. Los Angeles, CA                                      

Radio Bilingüe Collection, Fresno, CA                  

University of California at Santa Barbara

UCI Museum/Institute for California Art, Irvine CA                                                           United Farm Workers Union, La Paz, CA

PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS

 

La Nueva Reina de Los Angeles, LA PLAZA Village. El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical District, 2019

L.A. Sonata, EXPO Line Grand Terminus Station Santa Monica, Los Angeles County MTA, 2016

Sueños Oaxaqueños, Mural on canvas, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 1981

Recuerdos de Ayer, Sueños de Mañana, Los Angeles Bicentennial Mural, El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument, 1981

Homenaje a Las Mujeres de Áztlan (joint project with Carlos Almaraz), Ramona Gardens Housing Project, Los Angeles, CA, 1977

La Adelita, (joint project with C. Almaraz), Ramona Gardens Housing Project, Los Angeles, CA, 1977

Los Four Por El Pueblo (collective mural), California State University Los Angeles, 1977

Ave 43 Mural (collective mural with Carlos Almaraz, Frank Romero, and Leo Limon), Highland Park, CA, 1977

"Mexican Rule", The Great Wall of Los Angeles Mural, Tujunga Wash Flood Control Channel, 1976

El Mundo del Barrio Sotel, Stoner Recreation Center, Los Angeles, CA, 1976 – Restored 1997 (Demolished 2002)

Second Annual Constitutional Convention Mural (joint project with C. Almaraz), United Farm Workers Union, La Paz, CA 1975

United Farmer Workers Mural, Co-designer with Carlos Almaraz, 2nd Constitutional Convention, La Paz, CA, 1975

El Teatro de la Vida, Century Playhouse Theater, Los Angeles, CA, 1974

Los 4 Placa Mural, Portable mural for KCET-PBS. Los Angeles, CA, 1973

 

HONORS & AWARDS

 

Commendation for Contributions to the Arts, awarded by the California State Legislature, 2023

Legacy Artist Award, awarded by Self Help Graphics, 2023

Icon de Arte Award – As a Pioneer and Founder of Chicano Art. La PLAZA de Cultura y Artes, 2018

Sor Juana Legacy Award - Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to the Arts, National Museum of Mexican Art, 2018

L.A. Department of Cultural Restoration Grant for her designated historically significant mural “Homenaje al las Mujeres de Aztlan,” 2016

Michael Leyva Memorial Award - For contributions to Chicano Culture & Social Activism, 2014

International Latino Book Awards - Floricanto en Aztlan (Illustrator), Best Poetry Book, 2013

Women’s History Month: Thirty-One Days of Extraordinary Women, KCET, March 2012

12th Annual International Open, Woman Made, Chicago, IL, First Prize, 2009

32nd Bradley International Print & Drawing Exhibition, Honorable Mention, 2009

Otis College of Art and Design, designated Outstanding Alumni, 2007

The Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art, Oral biography collected for archives, 2002

Comisión Femenil Mexicana Nacional - Achievement in the Fine Arts, 1980

 

FELLOWSHIPS / GRANTS / RESIDENCIES

 

Anonymous Was a Woman Grant, 2021

Los Angeles Dept of Cultural Affairs: Mural Restoration Grant. Homenaje a las Mujeres de Aztlan, Ramona Gardens Housing Project, 2016

City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship (C.O.L.A.), 2012

University of Chicago, Artist-in-Residence, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, 2011

National Endowment for the Arts, mural grant, “Homenaje a las Mujeres de Aztlan,” Ramona Garden Housing Project, Los Angeles CA 1977

National Endowment for the Arts, mural grant, “El Teatro de la Vida,” Inner City Mural Program, Los Angeles CA 1974

 

ARCHIVED PAPERS / RECORDS

 

Modern Museum of Art, DADABASE, New York

Stanford University Libraries

California Institute of Technology

Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art, Washington D.C., Oral History Archive and Film Archive

Getty Images, Film Archive

Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artists Names Online

Getty Research Institute, Ernest A. Long Outdoor Mural Archive

California Institute of the Arts

Los Angeles Public Library

Library of Congress, Washington DC

Latin American & Caribbean Contemporary Art Web Archive.

Digital Public Library of America, Boston Public Library

California State University Channel Islands Repository

Middle Tennessee State University, Walker Library

Rutgers University, Women Artists Archives National Directory

University of California at Los Angeles, Chicano Studies Research Ctr.

University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, Madison

University of Michigan, Institute for Research on Women & Gender

University of Southern California Architecture & Fine Arts Library

University of California at Berkeley, University Library, MRC Vault

University of California at Los Angeles, Special Collections Library

University of Notre Dame, Institute for Latino Studies, Latin

   American Art & Latino Art in the Midwestern United States

University of California at Santa Barbara, Ethnic/ Multicultural  Archives

University of Southern California Libraries, Special Collections, 

   Los Angeles Public Art

International Center for the Arts of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts,   Houston TX

SELECTED GALLERY GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

Spring into Action! Monica King Contemporary, New York, NY 2020

50 Years of Chicano/a Art Activism Across Borders: Printmaking, Making Prints, and Making Art History, San Diego State University 2020

CENTENNIAL: One Hundred Years of Otis College Alumni, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA 2019

L.A. ART SHOW 2015, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA 2015

L.A. Muralists in Their Studios II, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2015

Chicana/o Biennial, Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA), San Jose, CA 2015

Dia de los Muertos - "Alas de los Muertos: The Return of the Souls", Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA 2015

One Degree of Separation: A Sisterhood of California Women Artists, Arte Américas/Casa de la Cultura, Fresno, CA 2015

Kaleidoscope, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2014

C.O.L.A. 2013, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2013

Self Help Graphics Annual Print Fair & Exhibition, Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA 2012

The Naming of the Cesar E. Chavez Memorial Auditorium, United States Department of Labor, 2012

Pacific Standard Time: L.A. Art 1945-1980 - Breaking in Two: Provocative Visions of Motherhood, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2012

Los Vets, Ave 50 Studio, Los Angeles, CA, 2011

38th Annual Dia de los Muertos Exhibition, Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA, 2011

Mujer: art+genesis+power, Latino Museum of History, Art, and Culture/Consulado de Mexico, Los Angeles, CA, 2011

Light and Dark Drawings, Fremont Gallery, South Pasadena, CA, 2010

Body Language, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, CA, 2010

After Adelita, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL (Catalog), 2010

12th International Open Exhibition, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2009

Women's Works 2009 Exhibition, Arts Center Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2009

Bearing Witness: Art as Social Action, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL (DVD catalog), 2009

Layer Cake: Tales of a Quinceañera, Columbia College - C33 Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2009

11th Annual Chicago Art Open, Grand Salon, Merchandise Mart (Catalog), 2009

Her Mark 2010, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2009

The Collection: The Narratives of Patric McCoy, Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2010

32nd Bradley International Print & Drawing Exhibition, Bradley University, (Catalog), 2009

66th Annual Salon Show, the Center for Visual and Performing Arts, Hammond, IN

Women Imaging Women: A Study of Female Portraiture, Robert Morris University, Chicago, IL, 2009

Chicago ARTEAhora, River East Art Center, Chicago, IL, 2008

Gallery Artists, Ogilvie/Pertl Gallery, River East Art Center, Chicago, IL, 2008

Reforming US: Immigration through Art, Crown Center Gallery, Loyola University Chicago, IL, 2008

Mexican Otis, Otis College of Art Design, Los Angeles, CA, 2004

California Connections, Gallery 1078, Chico, CA, 1995

Los 4: Twenty Years Later, Robert Berman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1994

Contemporary Latin American Artists, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA, 1989

The Murals of Aztlan: The Street Painters of East Los, University of Houston, Houston, TX 1984

Califas on Paper, Fondo del Sol, Washington, D.C., 1982

Six Chicano Artists, Roberts Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 1980

Chicanindia, Galería Capistrano, Capistrano, CA, 1980

Arte Chicano, Galería Pentagano, Mexico City, 1979

Los Four en Fresno, California State University Fresno, Fresno, CA, 1977

Los Four Banners and Paper, Mount San Antonio College, Walnut Grove, CA, 1977

Arte Picante, Mandeville Gallery, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 1976

Los Four en Sacra, California State University Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, 1976

Las Chicanas: Venas de la Mujer, The Women's Building, Los Angeles, CA, 1976

Las Chicanas, Mechicano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1976

In Search of Four Women...Four Cultures, California Institute of Technology, Baxter Gallery, Pasadena, CA (Catalog), 1976

ASCO/Los Four, the Point Gallery, Santa Monica CA 1975

Los Four Por El Pueblo, California State University Los Angeles, CA, 1975

Las Chicanas, Boat House Gallery, Plaza de la Raza, Los Angeles, CA  1975

10 Chicano Artists, the Point Gallery 2669 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA  1975

Los 4, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1974

Los Four: Art of the Barrio, Both Old and New, Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA  1974

Chicano Art, Art Gallery, Santa Ana College, Santa Ana, CA  1974

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